Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest possible amount of labor for the smallest possible amount of money. They should give the printers their 12.5 per cent--but even that is robbery. It is too late in the strike for anyone to emerge as victor; it is simply time for the University to stop its relentless price-squeezing...
...simple story of Bessie Bogo, a lower middle class Jewish mother striving to propel her two children to economic success during a time when even survival is difficult. Her pretentions to respectability lead her to engineer a loveless marriage between her pregnant daughter and a hapless recent immigrant. Her relentless drive for upward mobility causes her to heartlessly disapprove of her son's love for a peniless orphan. Their struggles are played out with an important group of other stereotypical characters all used artfully by Odets. The grandfather Jacob counters Bessie's values with his untutored, untested, but deeply felt...
...Weeeoooo!" For competitors of the giant A. & P. food chain, that cry has become as unwelcome as a Comanche war whoop in the Old West. A contraction of the slogan "Where Economy Originates," it has become a symbol of A. & P.'s relentless drive since 1972 to lure back disaffected customers and boost sales by paring prices. In the process the company has lost millions and left many experts wondering if the campaign was an act of corporate suicide. A. & P.'s rivals-Kroger, Grand Union, Bohack and most of the rest-suffered bloodbaths trying to keep their...
...still the undisputed boss of the nation's last surviving big political machine, but the machine itself is slowly deteriorating. The corruption that has long been one of its largely hidden ingredients is now being exposed and examined under the twin spotlights of sophisticated investigative reporting and relentless legal prosecution. In addition, charges of police brutality, much of it committed against blacks and documented in detail by the Chicago Tribune last fall, have contributed to the growing disaffection of the usually pro-Daley black voters, who make up about 30% of the electorate. With the help of a forceful...
...Newsweek's Paul Zimmerman asked, "Who needs a film about a white man who teaches blacks how to think?" (But if black children are taught to think by blacks or liberated whites, aren't the rednecks the only ones who lose?) And in Time, Richard Schickel compared Conroy's relentless idealism to Chinese water torture...